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Action, Decision-making and Forms of Life - Couverture rigide

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9783110472882: Action, Decision-making and Forms of Life
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 3110472880 ISBN 13 : 9783110472882
Editeur : De Gruyter, 2016

Synopsis

The book is exceptional because it applies the notion of foms of life to the context of human action. It provides answers to the following questions: Why do we act in a specific way? Why do we make particular decisions? Does one's form of life and language games determine our actions and decisions? Wittgenstein proposes a holistic method which enables us to give coherent answers to these questions. To answer the question of the contents of actions and decisions we have to explain how we have institutionalized these actions or decisions. To this aim we shall reveal the frame within which language games are introduced and have come to function as practice and custom. The scheme of order underlying the language games is illustrated. Human actions and decisions follow particular rules. By highlighting the underlying scheme of order we may gain a perspicuous view of these rules. The aim of this book is to show that actions and decisions generate rational choice. This choice is explained by demonstrating the particular functions of the language games involved.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jesús Padilla Gálvez, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The book aims to answer the question of why certain actions are carried out within specific forms of life. Every action is acquired by way of language games. With the aid of these language games the speaker introduces a regulatory scheme. This scheme can be analyzed by scrutinizing the grammar used in the language games. Language games follow specific rules that form part of the regulatory scheme. Decision-making is the result of a process in which the speaker has selected a specific language game from a range of alternative possibilities.

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Éditeur
De Gruyter
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3110472880
ISBN 13 
9783110472882
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
150
Éditeur
Padilla Galvez Jesus
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